mastering tips for roland vs2000????

[Dawdeeb]

hey, im recording a couple of albums on the roland vs2000 at the moment, and theyre nearly ready for mastering. ive done lots of engineering and production but ive never mastered before. the vs2000 seems to have pretty good mastering tools, and ive got great monitors (roland dm series with sub woofer) and i was just wandering if anyone has mastered with the vs2000 and if they have any tips on getting a perfect broadcast quality final product. most of my tracks have been recorded direct, with vocals and some other instruments recorded with a high quality condernser valve mic, so the quality of the recorded tracks is fine.

ok any tips would be great, thanks.

 

[volltreffer]

Hi!

I'm working with the older Roland VS stuff for quite a while, so maybe I might help you... I've never used one of the vs8f3 boards, though.

First thing: why do you wanna do a DIY-mastering? I do it that way, too, but I'm ***definitely*** not assuming any professional success with my recordings. I have a day-time job that wouldn't even allow that, but if I ever had something like that I'd ALWAYS go the proper way to have it mastered by a mastering studio. You'll neither have the room, the equipment, the ears and the experience... And you're too biased, as you wouldn't be able to improve the best thing that you did when mixing as good as you could... A second opinion on your stuff may also be worth alot. The last point is that you don't seem to have too much outboard gear, so it may be helpful to get a different color into the song, which is definitely not what you reach with using the same machine for mastering, too. If it is some customer demo stuff --- well YMMV....

If it's more a dedicated DIY thing, then I have o admit that I'm not too fond of the MTKs, but they can be quite ok. They often tend to have a kindof grainy distortion in the high mids, that seems to have to do something with the soft clip feature that follows the limiter. Be careful when turning this baby on... If you have technical uestions on the VS, you might think of looking to www.vsplanet.com --- there are loads of vs users.

Ciao,

aXel